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The editor is a poet, painter and art critic. He has written a Doctoral thesis Aesthetic space: The Evolution of Pictorial Language is Orissa. He has poetized two anthologies Beaujolais Nouveau and portraying Myself and other poems. He has received BEF, Zurich Scholarship to research on Orissa’s cultural traditions. He is awarded the National Fellowship in Literature by Department of Culture, Government of India. He is presently the General Secretary of the Crafts Council or Orissa.1996-98 and Junior Fellowship by Government of India to study The Role of Artisans in the Cultural Traditions of Orissa, 2003-04. He has published two poetry anthologies Beaujolais Nouveau, 1999 and Portraying Myself, 2000; edited the catalogue A Millennium Multimedia Manifestation, 1999, (with Dinanath Pathy) Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: Contemporary Art of Orissa, 2001and Beyond the Canvas: Critical Vision of an Indian Painter, 2003; curated an exhibition of crafts Council of Orissa in International Kalinga Bali Yatra, Indonesia, 1993; workshop cum exhibition Bhubaneswar Oh! Bhubaneswar, 2005 He has exhibited at Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, New Delhi, 1996, Sutra gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2004 and 05, and had his one-man exhibitions at Bhubaneswar, 2001 and University of Munich, Germany, 2004. He lives in Bhubaneswar and is a freelance writer and painter. He edits a journals on performing and visual arts Angarag.